一个好学位能抵抗经济衰退？_BEC初级作文

一个好学位能抵抗经济衰退？

一个好学位能抵抗经济衰退？1

Young adults have long faced a rough job market, but in the last recession and its aftermath, college graduates did not lose nearly as much ground as their less-educated peers, according to a new study.The study, published on Wednesday by the Pew Charitable Trusts, shows that among Americans age 21 to 24, the drop in employment and income was much steeper among people who lacked a college degree.The findings come as many published articles and books have told the stories of young college graduates unable to find work, and questioned the conventional wisdom that a college education is a worthwhile investment and the key to opportunity and social mobility. The study did not take into account the cost of going to college.

长期以来，年轻人面临着严峻的就业市场形势，但一项新的研究表明，在上一次经济衰退及其余波中，高校毕业生的失业率要明显低于教育程度较低的同龄人。皮尤慈善信托基金(Pew Charitable Trusts)周三公布的研究结果表明，在21岁至24岁的美国年轻人中，没有大学学历的人就业率和收入水平下降更显著。此前出版的许多文章和著作描述了年轻的大学毕业生找不到工作的故事，并质疑传统认识——也就是认为大学教育是一项有价值的投资，并且是缔造机会和社会流动性的关键。最新的这项研究并没有考虑到上大学的费用。

“This shows that any amount of post-secondary education does improve the labor market outcomes for those recent graduates,” said Diana Elliott, the research manager for Pew’s Economic Mobility Project. “This is not necessarily to discredit those individual stories.”Among those whose highest degree was a high school diploma, only 55 percent had jobs even before the downturn, and that fell to 47 percent after it. For young people with an associate’s degree, the employment rate fell from 64 percent to 57 percent.